Zach Watts

Zach Watts

HLTH 1500

Julie Morgan

February 28, 2013

Service Project

            For my service project I chose helping and teaching elementary school kids to say no to drugs. Along with some fellow athlete and coaches in the SLCC program we go around the valley to several elementary schools and give then an assembly about other things you can do besides drugs and that drugs are a trap.  

            This program is a very influential program for not just the kids that we teach but even the teenagers and adults teaching them.  I think that I got more out of the message then the children did. Ever since I have been involve with the knowing greater hero’s program I have changed as a person for the better. I know longer just follow the crowd and let the crowd control my actions. I have lead by example and I am more of a leader now. One of the most important things in my opinion that we teach the kids is that you have to defy the odds. Meaning there is going to be people out there telling you aren’t strong enough or that you are not smart enough to succeed.  This had a big impact on me because I have been told that I am not smart enough and not talented enough to be a successful student athlete at the college level. I have been defying the odds so far in my college career by staying ahead in school and being an athlete at the college. Teaching these kids that they can do whatever they want in life even if there are people telling them they can’t is a very powerful thing that they need to learn.  

            Teaching these kids has not only changed my life but the kid’s life as well. I have seen the other kids get out of there shell and not care what everybody else thinks and just have fun being a kid.  Getting the kids to socialize with other groups of kids and just enjoying being kids is what we want.